On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:27:56 +0200 Rafael Laboissiere wrote: [...] > * David Bateman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-04-10 11:15]: [...] > I am not a license expert and I have no idea whether including GPL code in a > non-GPL released documentation is okay. I think it boils down to making > sure the licensing conditions expressed in fixed.txi are compatible with the > GPL. For the debian-legal people following this thread, here are the > conditions: > > Copyright (C) 2004 Motorola Inc > > Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of > this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice > are preserved on all copies. > > Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this > manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire > resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission > notice identical to this one. > > Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual > into another language, under the same conditions as for modified versions.
As I already said in this same thread[1], I think this license is GPL-incompatible. [1] see http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2008/04/msg00047.html > > > > If its only the issue of the inclusion of fixed.{texi,txi} that is the > > issue that is preventing the packages inclusion in debian I have no > > objections to including these in the package tar-ball. > > I think that including fixed.texi should be enough, even though it is > derived source. What do you mean "derived source"? Which is the preferred form for making modifications to fixed.pdf? Would the author prefer modifying fixed.texi or fixed.txi? The preferred form is the source code. > Including fixed.txi also will not hurt, although it cannot > be used to build fixed.texi from the tarball alone. Why not? Are we missing a Build-Depends, by chance? My disclaimers, as usual: IANAL, TINLA, IANADD, TINASOTODP. -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/index.html#nanodocs The nano-document series is here! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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